Course Details

Climatology

Academic Year 2024/25

BS051 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Atmosphere of the Earth: composition, layers, attributes 2. Atmospheric pressure: units, normal pressure, attributes, measurement 3. Radiation: energy of radiation, Sun, radiation and absorption in atmosphere, Earth radiation, measurement 4. Temperature of the soil, water and the air: units, attributes, measurement 5. Humidity of the air: determination, units, distribution in the atmosphere 6. Evaporation and transpiration: definitions, evaporation from the soil, water and plants, measurement and calculation, values 7. Condensation of water vapor: condensation nucleus,level, condensation on soil surface, in low layers of the atmosphere 8. Precipitations: origin and classification, intensity, measurement and evaluation 9. Cloudiness: clouds, water volume, classification 10. Atmospheric air flow: origin, classification, circulation, measurement and evaluation 11. Basic pressure formations, weather 12. Climate of the Earth, European climate, climate of CZ 13. Climate change, global warming

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. History of Meteorological Station of Faculty of Civil Engineering, BUT. Meteorological devices. Presentation topics. 2. Czech Hydrometeorological Institute and its measuring stations. Atmosphere of the Earth: layers - graph. Videodocument: Atmosphere of the Earth. Presentation of selected topics. 3. Composition of the atmosphere of the Earth. Air pollution. presentations of selected topics. 4. Measurement and evaluation of atmospheric pressure. Tasks, calculations. Climate Atlas of the CR. 5. Soil, water and air temperature, thermometers types, measurements evaluations (calculations, graphs). 6. Air humidity: measurement and evaluation (graphs). 7. Evaporation and transpiration: measurement and calculation methods. Presentation of selected topics. 8. Precipitations: measurement and evaluation. Snow. Presentation of selected topics.. 9. Classification of clouds - tests on line. Atlas of clouds. Presentation of selected topics. 10. Air - evaluation of measured data. Measuring devices. 11. Meteorological observations. 12. Climadiagram. Climate change - videodocument. 13. Evaluation of winter seasons. Weather proverbs.